Roundup Q2

Thanks to all the developers and team leads who contributed to the sections on their projects In the last month and a half, the Ethereum network went through a rapid growth in usage, to the point that it now processes as many transactions per second a…

The Stem Cell Revolution

Stem cell technology could finally become the all-purpose tool for repairing the body, thanks to rapid and precise genome editing techniques such as CRISPR.

The Robots Are Coming… To Help You

With the debut of streamlined and cheaper collaborative robots, ARK believes the market for industrial robots should explode… without destroying jobs.

A Crisis Brewing for Auto Loans?

An unexpectedly rapid rise of both ride-sharing and autonomous taxis seems likely to threaten a predictable auto loans market.

Roundup Round III

Over the last month and a half we saw vigorous ongoing research and development on all sides of the Ethereum roadmap, and progress is rapidly starting to translate into real results that can be run and verified inside of an Ethereum client. On Metropo…

Google: The Full Stack AI Company

Google’s AI has catapulted the company to the innovation forefront. It uses its own data to train its own algorithms running on its own chips…

Solidity optimizer bug

A bug in the Solidity optimizer was reported through the Ethereum Foundation Bounty program, by Christoph Jentzsch. This bug is patched as of 2017-05-03, with the release of Solidity 0.4.11. Background The bug in question concerned how the optimizer o…

Geth 1.6 – Puppeth Master

Cramming in a lot more goodies than originally anticipated, the Go Ethereum team is proud to finally deliver the first incarnation of the 1.6 Geth release series! Glimpsing through the commit list, this is going to be a monster post! Toml configuratio…

Invest Like Warren Buffett, Not Carl Icahn

Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn are two of the most successful investors of the past century. But Buffett is a superior model for investors to follow because of his patient style and focus on finding great businesses.

Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1 (Boring Edition)

The last one and a half months have seen great progress for Ethereum research, and we are excited that the protocol is moving closer and closer to the point where it is ready for mainstream adoption. Progress on consensus algorithms, privacy, zero know…